"Liars have returned with their sixth studio album and follow-up to 2010's critically lauded Sisterworld. WIXIW was recorded in LA and self-produced by the band with additional production from Mute founder Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller. The band worked more collaboratively than on previous recordings and began when frontman Angus Andrew and bassist Aaron Hemphill moved into an isolated cabin in the mountains to begin writing. The album is simultaneously the most accessible and the most challenging release from this iconoclastic band - it is both a summation of Liars' work up to now, and a complete break from anything they have done previously."

"Three years in the making, this sixth album from M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) is one of Autumn 2011's most highly anticipated releases. Grandiose in scale, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is inspired by Smashing Pumpkin's revered double disc Melancholy & The Infinite Sadness. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, NIN, The Mars Volta, Goldfrapp) and including contributions from Brad Laner (from '90s band Medicine) on guitar, Saturdays=Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby, and guest vocalist Zola Jesus, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (featuring first single 'Midnight City'), is a double-album journey that takes us to the horizon and introduces us to new landscapes. About awakening, craving, and conquering, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming pushes into new vocal territory for M83. Here we see Anthony Gonzalez test out different ways of singing, ranging from a spectral breathy whisper to a howling scream. Soaring and scraping up against the sky while sharing each uncharted frontier with new collaborators is what M83 does best."

2011 collectors edition. DVD audio content: No More Shall We Part in 5.1 and stereo; "Good Good Day/Little Janey's Gone," "Grief Came Riding," "Bless His Ever Loving Heart," and four Westside sessions tracks ("Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow," "We Came Along This Road," "God Is In The House" and "And No More Shall We Part"). Video content: "Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 11: No More Shall We Part)" and "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side/Love Letter/Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow."

"Internationally renowned for his career with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey returns with his first fully self-penned album, Sketches From The Book Of The Dead. In 2007, Harvey started writing songs about the stories and memories he had of some people close to him that he had lost. Throughout 2009, more of Harvey's old friends and comrades checked out prematurely, and Harvey found himself thinking even more about what it all meant -- about the relationships one still has with people after they're gone and how different experiences bring back different memories and emotions. These thoughts translated into songs for what is now a fully-focused project."

"Liars return in 2010 with their fifth studio album; their boldest and most exhilarating record to date. Sisterworld was written and recorded in Los Angeles by Liars and Tom Biller and is an invigorating summation of their career so far. Building on the back-to-basics approach employed by previous album, Liars (2007), Sisterworld is a dense art-pop thrill from start to finish. Sisterworld is Liars' own space, completely devoid of influence, somewhere remote from the false promises and discarded dreams amassed in LA. In it Liars explore the underground support systems created to deal with loss of self to society. According to Liars - Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - 'We're interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society.'"

"An opera based on Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. In 2008, Danish theater experimentalists Hotel Pro Forma invited The Knife to write music and libretto for their modern opera, Tomorrow, In a Year . The Knife, Swedish siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer-Andersson (aka Fever Ray), created a studio version of this opera in collaboration with the English musician/singer Planningtorock and the American musician/singer Mt.Sims as creative family members. They engaged with the Danish mezzo soprano Kristina Wahlin Momme, the Danish actress Laerke Winther and the Swedish pop singer Jonathan Johanson for the vocal parts. These 90 minutes of music by The Knife and their collaborators Mt.Sims and Planningtorock are sparked by the pioneer of natural selection Charles Darwin and his revolutionary evolutionary findings and writings in his book On The Origin of The Species. First published in 1859 and based on the discoveries he made on his journey to Galapagos Islands from 1831-1836, aboard the good ship HMS Beagle." "In November 2009, it was precisely 150 years since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, a work that describes the biological and geological world, as it has come into existence and continues to do so every single day. Our view of the world has been changed forever as a result of the theory of evolution. Tomorrow, In A Year uses Darwin's way of observing and describing the world. Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance." -- Hotel Pro Forma

"Polly Scattergood -- and what a name that is -- is that rare talent, a musician and songwriter who can make the disturbing sound delightful. She might sing on her eagerly anticipated debut album about suicidal tendencies, sadness in the air, spitting on her French knickers and being called a whore, but she does so in such an idiosyncratically alluring, soft little-girl voice, one of ravaged innocence, and she places her startling images in such pretty pop contexts, that you can't help being seduced."

"'We Share Our Mothers' Health' is the second single from Silent Shout, The Knife's third album (and first domestic release). Hot on the heels of José González' hit cover version of their brilliant and unique 'Heartbeats,' the word about this genius electro-pop duo has spread far & wide -- including the cover of XLR8R. 'We Share Our Mothers' Health' is a burbling electro groove, like Chicks On Speed managed by Malcolm McLaren. Features remixes by Trentemøller, Radio Slave and Ratatat. Amazingly cool animated video directed by Motomichi Nakamura."

"Already championed by buzz-talkers and tastemakers, Mute announces the release of Silent Shout, The Knife's third album and first domestic release. The world of The Knife is precise, particular, dark, occult, peculiar. The mysterious duo work mostly on their own in splendid isolation. Silent Shout features The Knife's lurking, textured vocals steeped in a tangled, dark surrealist underbrush. It's is an astounding achievement, intriguing & bewildering, enigmatic and engaging, and never less than compelling. Its jaw-dropping fusion of technology and emotion, circuitry and the soul, melodrama and melody, will leave you gasping."

CD single w/ remixes by Troy Pierce, Shindoe. Plus original version, radio edit, and video track. "Hot on the heels of José González's hit cover version of their brilliant and unique 'Heartbeats,' genius electro-pop duo The Knife will release their new album Silent Shout this summer 2006, their first album to receive a domestic release. 'Silent Shout,' the album's first single & title track, is an infectious groove with dark, distorted vocals and steel drum beats -- described by the band as very sad, but hard, beautiful, cold and warm at the same time."

"Mute is proud to re-release Veneer, which received its initial U.S. pressing on Hidden Agenda Records. Jose Gonzalez relies simply on his own eloquent classical guitar and a voice that marries assuredness with delicacy. His songs (sung in perfect English) are timeless, yet there's a freshness to Jose's music that makes repeated listening an endless delight. From Sweden, Argentinian descent and only in his 20s, Jose is a heartening case of the artist resisting the vicissitudes of musical fashion to carve out a unique, intimate style that is all his own."

"Is the second single from Drum's Not Dead, Liars' third album.The CD release features a brand new song, 'Do As The Birds, Digest The Remains' alongside two versions of the title track and a Liars remix of 'Drum And The Uncomfortable Can.' Each track is accompanied by a video, directed by a member of the band. Drum's Not Dead was partly inspired by a relocation from New York to Berlin. It finds the band taking another seismic step forward, switching continents, seizing new musical territory and shredding all past reference points."

"'Sick Like Me' is the first single from T.Raumschmiere's forthcoming album Blitzkrieg Pop. Containing more apparent punk rock influences as well as his own vocals, T.Raumschmiere also enlisted the help of his friends Ellen Allien (Bpitch Control), Sandra Nasic (from Guano Apes), Quasimodo Jones and Judith Juillerat (both from T.Raumschmiere's own Shitkatapult label) and more to build Blitzkrieg Pop into an alternate universe's punk rock anthem. 'Sick Like Me' features alternate versions and remixes by Motor."

"Animal Lover is The Residents' new album. When Charles Darwin first proposed in the late 1800s that homo-sapiens had evolved from and were in fact a species of animal, many humans were horrified; humans had an unusual need to feel superior. Taking a step beyond Darwin, Sigmund Freud believed that the human was an animal in conflict, and informing the human of that very simple concept seemed to only increase the conflict. In The Residents' Animal Lover, the creatures who don't really mind if they are animals take an existential look at the upright animal whose normality is sliding toward the wrong end of the spectrum. The human beasts live in a world of primal darkness, their heads forever stuck in the ground like frightened ostriches living in a constant murky dream state. In creating this picture book of animal tales, The Residents wanted to include a soundtrack that related directly to 'animal love'. The result is an imaginative CD whose rhythm tracks are based entirely on animal noise mating patterns generated primarily by cicadas and frogs. Also the actual sounds of mating whales and humans were used for longer tonal passages. (They weren't mating with each other, by the way.)"

"30 is Laurent Garnier's second artist album originally released on his own F Communications label in 1997, and long out of print in the United States. 30 spawned the classic singles 'Crispy Bacon', 'Flashback', and 'The Hoe'."

"La Serpenta Canta aka 'The Serpent Sings', is a song recital recruiting blues, R&B, Motown, southern soul, Country & Western and her own 'Baby's Insane' (from This Sporting Life, her duo album with John Paul Jones) in Galás's ongoing campaign against forgetting. The songs are render in her own inimitable style spanning Eastern Orthodox liturgy, American roots and the rembetika songs of Greece and Asia Minor. This set is sung by Galás accompanying herself on piano and is a collection of live recording from around the world between May 1999 and November 2002 ."

"The second single from his debut Novamute album Radio Blackout. Kevin Martin, aka The Bug, provides two rough and crunchy remixes for this single. Kevin also records as Porter Ricks, Techno Animal and God, and has recorded for labels such as Fat Cat and Mille Plateaux."